At the age of 12, Flor Edwards feared the world was going to end and that she would die.

The now-36-year-old escaped the cult called Children of God – the same group that Hollywood celebrities were raised in – and has spoken about the harrowing abuse.

The teacher recently published a memoir about her childhood titled “Apocalypse Child: A Life in End Times”.

According to Fox News, Rose McGowan, brothers Joaquin and River Phoenix were also raised in the Children of God group.

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“The world was going to end”

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She said: “I was aware of River Phoenix. We were told about him in the cult, as a warning.

"Like this is what happens when you leave, which is really sad.”

As a child, Flor experienced back thoughts in the back of her mind.

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She revealed: “The world was going to end. It was just something I knew all my life.

“I don’t remember hearing about it for the first time. I just always had a date on my mind, 1993.

“That was the year we were going to die and the rapture was going to come. The world was going to end and for me, that meant I was only going to live until 12. So that’s what we were looking forward to.

“We were going to attempt to save the world and everyone… I didn’t know how many people inhabited the world. But once it was time for the world to end, we were going to be martyrs for God.

“I would lay in bed at night thinking about this moment of when I was going to die at 12.”

The Children of God started in 1968 by a small group of runway teens who dedicated their lives to worshipping Jesus Christ and engaging in promiscuous sex.

Flor, whose parents joined the group before she was born, said the Children of God easily lured followers with its message of peace and love.

She explained: “But what really changed was when children came around because the adults were there on their own free will, but us children weren’t.

“So when the group started to multiply… that’s when they started controlling us. And they had to come up with different ways to discipline us.

“You have to understand the group was cut off from society for 20 to 25 years.

“No education, no money, no job… Even if you wanted to leave, I don’t think you had the choice or the means to leave… My mother definitely had suspicions, but I think it was very difficult to try and leave.”

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The Children of God also preached that those who managed to leave were evil and would rot in hell.

“If you leave, you were basically doomed and you were probably going to die even earlier,” Flor explained.

She never experienced incest, which was reportedly rampant within the cult, but she was aware of the group sex taking place.

“I used to get very upset and just know this wasn’t right. Especially because it wasn’t by my parents. It was by other people. And I think when you hear stories about the outside world, I would have questions. What is this world? I remember having moments of feeling very curious.”

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By the age of 14, Flor was ready to leave and by 1996 she and her family let the group.

She continued: “I’ve heard recently the cult had lingered.

“But from my experience, once Father David died, we were on our own. But that’s not my story to tell. I don’t know if there are other people who had that experience, but apparently it kept going.”